ECB's Smets: March ECB meeting to take into account 2018 CP forecast

European Central Bank Governing Council member Jan Smets, is crossing the wires, via Bloomberg, noting that March ECB meeting will take into account 2018 CP forecast, adding that ECB's QE is committed until March 2017 and is open-ended.

Feb 19, 2016

Willaims refused to comment on rate projectons

Fed's Williams spoke in a press conference and the final comments from him for the day were going against the grain of the idea of negative interest rates, although does not rule them out as a tool in the future.

NZD/USD: drifting above 1hr200 sma for a bullish close?

NZD/USD is currently consolidating the recovery from 0.6545 to 0.6668 while February's rally from 0.6460 was capped at 0.6748 and the price was capped there on three occasions pointing to a bias to the downside.